Economic complexity in the ancient Near East : management of resources and taxation (third-second millenium BC) / Jana Mynárová, Sergio Alivernini (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mynářová, Jana, editor.

Alivernini, Sergio, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history--To 500.

Economic history.

Iraq--Economic conditions.

Iraq.

Iraq--History--To 634.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

471 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Prague : Charles University, 2020.

Summary:

The spread of cuneiform writing from its Mesopotamian heartland to the peripheries during the second half of the third, and especially in the second millennium BC, represents an important historical and cultural phenomenon. From the beginning of the second millennium BC cuneiform writing became the privileged means through which the administrations of these "peripheral" centers recorded economic transactions. These documents (taxes, rations, sales, etc.) shed a fascinating light on the economic system in these regions. Thousands of administrative documents allow us to follow the process of the development of economic thought that, starting from Mesopotamia, was taken and adapted to specific administrative realities throughout the wider regions of the Ancient Near East. The 19 essays collected here elucidate the emergence, transmission, and interaction of economic structures and the management of resources in time and space. Through a diachronic study, the volume identifies similarities, differences, and adaptations in the economic management of resources and taxation in the Ancient Near East (third - second millennium BC).

Contents:

Management of Resources and Taxation in the Ancient Near East. An Introduction / Sergio Alivernini - Jana Mynářová

Management of Resources and Taxation in the Early Dynastic and Sargonic Periods / Armando Bramanti

The Fiscal Capacity of the Ebla State in the Early Bronze Age: Taxation and Political Structure / Giacomo Benati - Marco Bonechi

Management of Resources and Taxation in an Early Mesopotamian Empire: the Case of the Third Dynasty of Ur / Sergio Alivernini

Extraction and Inequality in Middle Bronze Age Anatolia / Gojko Barjamovic

The Fiscal Regime of Babylonia during the Old Babylonian Period / Anne Goddeeris

Taxation in the Late Old Babylonian Period. The Chief Dirge Singers' Archive and Beyond / Katrien De Graef

Old Babylonian Taxation as Political Mechanism / Seth Richardson

Fiscal Regime and Management of Resources by the "King's Household "in Mari during the Old Babylonian Period / Grégory Chambon

Taxpayers and the Palace at the Time of the First Dynasty of the Sealand: Social Aspects, Officials, and Keeping Track of the Barley / Odette Boivin

Taxation and Management of Resources in Kassite Babylonia: Remarks on šibšu and miksu / Susanne Paulus

Tributes and Taxes in the Middle Assyrian Documentation / Jaume Llop

Taxation and Management of Resources: the Case of Nuzi / Josué J. Justel

Taxation and Management of Resources at Middle and Late Bronze Age Alalah / Jacob Lauinger

Taxation and Management of Resources

The Evidence from the Late Bronze Age Middle Euphrates Region / Regine Pruzsinszky

Taxation and Management of Resources at Ugarit / Kevin M. McGeough

Management of Resources and Taxation in the Southern Levant in the Middle and Late Bronze Age / Jana Mynářová

Empire Period Hatti

Tax Heaven in the Late Bronze Age / Jürgen Lorenz

Management of Resources in Mesopotamia: the View from the First Millennium BC / Heather Baker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9788073089917

8073089912

OCLC:

1246527650